crowd on beach

b-side Festival 2014

Portland

In 2014 Artists explored the island’s heritage, cultural history and local taboos as well as Portland’s special ecology and geology.

A programme of original work sometimes poignant or challenging, sometimes celebratory and frequently witty. The work was displayed on footpaths, in a living room, a library, a cafe, within a prison wall, at bus stops, in a church and more traditionally, in a gallery and theatre.

There was a wealth of events to experience and participate in: including a mass night time bike ride, cabaret, walks, film screenings and a shed-based communal reading experience!

Wonderful to experience the arts outside of London and see the history of this Island being preserved in a novel and fascinating manner

Festival Visitor

Lullaby illuminated bike ride by Luke Jerram at b-side festival 2014

'Our Rock' a short film made by young people from Portland, Dorset working with film maker Peter Snelling for b-side festival 2014.

Project resources

Project events

Simon Ryder
Event

Passage Part 2

Jailhouse Cafe
Portland

Empty of prisoners for a few months whilst being converted from a prison to an immigration removal centre, artist Simon Ryder took this once-in-a-

Tim Spooner
Event

The Most Extreme Form of Knowledge: Scene A

Outside The Cove Inn Pub
Portland

Join us outside the famous Cove Inn Pub with the breath-taking backdrop of Chesil Beach for a surreal and magical performing sculpture event.

Tim Spooner
Event

The Most Extreme Form of Knowledge: Scene B

Meet outside Portland Museum for the short walk down to St Andrews Ruin, Church Ope, Portland.
Portland

Join us within the historic site of St Andrews ruin above the stunning beach of Church Ope Cove for a surreal and magical performing sculpture

Tim Spooner
Event

The Most Extreme Form of Knowledge: Scene B The Twilight Performance

Meet outside Portland Museum
Portland

We will guide you on a twilight lantern lit walk into the woods leading to an old ruined church sometimes known as the pirate’s graveyard - high

Tom Marshman
Event

Everybody's Auditorium

Royal Manor Theatre
Portland

Take your seat on the stage of the glorious Royal Manor Theatre and listen to the stories of the sponsored seats as they reveal their hopes,

Event

Lullaby

St Georges Centre
Portland

b-side kicks off what we hope will be our most memorable Festival yet with this amazing and magical group event, involving people, illuminated

Emma Riley
Event

Ferrous (2014)

Fancy's Farm
Portland

Emma Riley uses the natural environment as a source for her site-specific work, responding to the landscape in an ecological manner. Texture from

Leah Crews
Event

Postcards to Locals

Jackson Gallery
Portland

Leah’s work for the festival involves a series of hand-printed linocut books based on residential streets of Fortuneswell, full of meaning and

These are the Damned
Event

These Are The Damned

Royal Manor Theatre
Portland

Black leather, black leather,

Smash smash smash,

Black leather, black leather,

Crash crash crash

An iconic Hammer

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